Software Engineering Contracts in Scotland

Software Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 63 56
Rank change year-on-year +29 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 107 109 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.04% 4.07% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.80% 4.41% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 80 65
10th Percentile £369 £413 £413
25th Percentile £400 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £591 £600
90th Percentile £709 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 5
10th Percentile £40.90 £44.25 £43.32
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.75 £47.93
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% +36.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,845 2,470 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.91% 92.13% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,723 2,271
10th Percentile £220 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.05 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -8.71%
75th Percentile £44.47 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Engineering in Scotland

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +22 77 £488 -7.58% 50
Edinburgh +11 19 £450 -9.91% 60
Aberdeen - 5 £388 - 12
Lanarkshire +3 1 £460 -21.10% 19
Aberdeenshire - 1 £313 - 6
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) GeoServer
Applications
1 11 (10.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.93%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.97%) AWS
2 15 (14.02%) Azure
3 7 (6.54%) Amazon S3
3 7 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (6.54%) npm
3 7 (6.54%) Serverless
4 5 (4.67%) GCP
5 4 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.80%) CloudFront
6 3 (2.80%) SaaS
7 2 (1.87%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.87%) Textract
8 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.93%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) Internet
2 2 (1.87%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.48%) Big Data
2 6 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.61%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.74%) Parquet
4 3 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.93%) GIS
5 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Cucumber
1 5 (4.67%) JIRA
1 5 (4.67%) JUnit
1 5 (4.67%) Mockito
2 4 (3.74%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.80%) webpack
4 2 (1.87%) CMake
5 1 (0.93%) Git
5 1 (0.93%) GitLab
5 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.93%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (14.95%) Finance
2 15 (14.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (8.41%) Financial Institution
4 5 (4.67%) Aviation
4 5 (4.67%) Electronics
4 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.87%) Banking
6 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.93%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (52.34%) Developer
2 29 (27.10%) Java Developer
3 24 (22.43%) Software Engineer
4 15 (14.02%) Full Stack Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Software Developer
6 10 (9.35%) Java Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) Lead
7 9 (8.41%) Full Stack Developer
7 9 (8.41%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Embedded Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Java Scala Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Linux Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Scala Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Backend Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.67%) C# Software Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) C++ Software Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.56%) HTML
2 17 (15.89%) AngularJS
3 16 (14.95%) Spring
4 13 (12.15%) PySpark
4 13 (12.15%) React
4 13 (12.15%) Spring Boot
5 12 (11.21%) REST
6 11 (10.28%) CSS
7 10 (9.35%) RESTful
8 8 (7.48%) JPA
9 5 (4.67%) Kafka
10 4 (3.74%) Apache Avro
10 4 (3.74%) AWS CDK
10 4 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (3.74%) OpenTracing
11 3 (2.80%) GraphQL
11 3 (2.80%) Node.js
11 3 (2.80%) OAuth
11 3 (2.80%) SpaCy
11 3 (2.80%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (7.48%) Public Cloud
2 7 (6.54%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.74%) Device Driver
3 4 (3.74%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.74%) IoT
3 4 (3.74%) PCIe
3 4 (3.74%) Verilog
3 4 (3.74%) VHDL
4 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.87%) CUDA
5 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.87%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.56%) Linux
2 9 (8.41%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (3.74%) VxWorks
4 3 (2.80%) Unix
5 1 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.60%) Agile
2 35 (32.71%) CI/CD
3 30 (28.04%) Full Stack Development
4 26 (24.30%) SDLC
5 25 (23.36%) Artificial Intelligence
6 18 (16.82%) Operational Stability
7 16 (14.95%) Microservices
8 15 (14.02%) Machine Learning
9 13 (12.15%) Code Quality
10 12 (11.21%) Community of Practice
10 12 (11.21%) Decision-Making
11 11 (10.28%) Conversational UI
12 9 (8.41%) Scrum
12 9 (8.41%) Test Automation
13 8 (7.48%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (6.54%) End-to-End Testing
15 6 (5.61%) Data Modelling
15 6 (5.61%) Unit Testing
16 5 (4.67%) ETL
16 5 (4.67%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (37.38%) Java
2 36 (33.64%) Python
3 30 (28.04%) SQL
4 20 (18.69%) TypeScript
5 19 (17.76%) Scala
6 18 (16.82%) C#
7 15 (14.02%) JavaScript
8 8 (7.48%) Kotlin
9 6 (5.61%) C
9 6 (5.61%) Embedded C
10 5 (4.67%) C++
11 3 (2.80%) Ada
11 3 (2.80%) Embedded C++
11 3 (2.80%) Perl
12 2 (1.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (13.08%) Degree
2 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.74%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.74%) MISRA
1 4 (3.74%) MISRA C
2 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (7.48%) Docker
2 5 (4.67%) Firmware
3 1 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.54%) Kubernetes
1 7 (6.54%) Prometheus
2 5 (4.67%) Grafana
3 4 (3.74%) Zipkin
4 3 (2.80%) Ansible
5 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (10.28%) PayPal
2 4 (3.74%) Atlassian
2 4 (3.74%) Intel
3 2 (1.87%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.93%) Adobe
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.93%) VMware
4 1 (0.93%) Xamarin